The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TEE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

n oL0WAAAG&l a Dill Oh SoHlG lQSteaC
of Promissory Note The Clincf
Rifles of Augusta to Give An Inter
state D~ill-Fuller Details of the
Tragedy in Butts County.
GEORGIA.
The cornerstone of the new English
Lutheran church at Augusta was laid Sun
day.
DIR. r. f. Green, President of the Gaines
vile Street Railroad Company is thinking
seriously of putting dummy engine on his
road
The Atlanta City Council has philan-
thropically voted three months salary to the
needy widow of a recently deceased member
of the police force.
1t was rumored that two men from JET
ferson county, while crossing Jordan's Mill
creek We're drowned last Saturday but the
report was hoax.
Rev. William NJ Harris and family have
removed from Elberton to Washington,
where Mr.. Harris has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Baptist church.
There is club being organized in Buena
Vista, with membership of fifty, to con-
tribute 81 each and every month to be in
vested in the louisiana State Lottery.
Maj Z. W. Miller, of Buena Vista, will
be candidate before the Legislature for the
Judgeship of the Chattahoochee circuit,
made vacant by the death of Judge Willis
A Lumpkin lawyer has arranged so as to
have his hands full of business during the
summer He is learning to manipulate a
type writer and play on cornet at the same
time.
Three men were struck by lightning and
one was bitten by a mad dog, and NJ H
Boyer came very near being drowned last
week ON Mr.. Boyer's plantation in Baker
county.
The brick work on the Baptist church at
Miiledgeville will be completed in few
days About 81, 900 have already been ex-
pended 1t viii require about 81, 900 more
TO put on the roof.
Mr.. Waterhouse, the engineer on the
B. V. and E. railroad, killed the first ami
NAL of any kind Wednesday morning since
he has been engineer on this road. His en-
gine knocked a COW off the track and broke
her neck.
7. F. Miller, a white man, of Butts county,
who has been tried for murder and for bur-
glary, acquitted on the first charge and re-
leased on bond on the second, was on Friday
night called out of his house by unknown
parties and shot to death.
George Scarlet of Fancy Bluff, near
Brunswick, has in his yard n large tree
which is q genuine curiosity. 1t was origi-
nally on the inside of an iron fence, which
now runs straight through its trunk, the tree
fence next it during its growth.
At Harmony Grove Friday night last,
prominent young physician while wrapped
III the arms of Morpheus, dreamed snake
was after him. Quick as flash, while he
was still asleep, the doctor leaped out of
bed and struck his head upon the edge of
trunk, thereby cutting frightful cash just
over his left eye.
Two negroes, Fayette johnson and Frank
FThnr1rnef1Y lab
TenniIle railroad, became involved in an
alteration near Harrison last week, in
which johnson struck Thompson a severe
blow across the head, from which he still
hes in a critical condition. johnson is in
jail at Sandersville
j. A. Bremen, Superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, was
in Sandersville Monday looking after the
building of telegraph line between Angus
Ia and Sandersville via the Augusta, Glib
SON and Sandersville railroad. He SAYS
that the new line will be finished by the
middle of June next.
AT Dallas Sunday night serious difficulty
occurred near the depot, in which w. r.
Strickland stabbed Will Howard with a
knife in several places about the body. No
one seems to know what the difficulty was
about, as the two men had been out buggy
riding. Strickland says he did it in self de
tense. Howard is in a critical condition.
The Chnch Rifles, of Augusta, are to give
the grandest interstate drill ever held in the
South next spring They propose to have
$4,000 in premiums and military contest
such as never before was seen in the South
A meeting of the officers Of the different
military companies will be held in a few
days to devise means of getting up the pro-
posed drill
A negro named James Phillips was ex-
amined in the Recorders Court at Atlanta
Monday, and bound over in the sum of
$1,000 to answer to the charge of fornica-
ton and adultery with Ella Dover, the
young white girl who was intending to ac-
company Eta Henderson, the quadroon, to
Savannah. Eta was placed under bond of
S100 for Auxiliary. - A.-.. u.
Six or seven years ago Richard Davis
killed Meredith Owen, barkeeper, in a
drunken brawl at the toll bridge, some miles
below Macon. He was apprehended, tried.
convicted and sentenced to the pehitential.y.
He has served out his time excepting about
one year, and bis friends and the entire
community have united in petitioning Gov
Gordon for a pardon.
At Gibson NJ. i. Thompson, one of the
section hands on the railroad, after heavy
rain on the night Of May II, went over the
section OF the road to see if the road was all
right for the trains, ETC., leaving his family
all well, his wife being up at her house
work all the day before. Returning in
about two hours he found his wife and in
FAINT child in bed, both dead, Their death
is quite surprise to the town. 1t is sup
posed she died of heart trouble, and while
dying in some way smothered the child.
The friends of John W. Smith, now in
Fulton county Jail under sentence of death,
are making an effort to secure communal
ton of his sentence to Imprisonment for life
Smith was convicted of murder in Heard
Superior Court and sentenced TO be hanged
on May q. Some gentlemen from Carroll
and Coweta oSunties called at the executive
department to present a petition
for executive clemency. An appoint
ment with the Governor was made for to-
morrow morning, when the case will be for
mally presented.
At Athens Miss Mary Harden was buried
Sunday afternoon. After her death an ex-
animation of her effects was made The
old lady had lived 50 long alone, and had
denied herself so many of the comforts of
life, that but little of an interesting nature
was discovered. Some fifty or more dollars
were discovered hidden among the coverings
of the bed No will was found among her
own effects. Mrs. r. D. Moore turned over to
the Ordinary of the county viii made by
Miss Harden six or seven years ago, aud LETT